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Friday, July 20, 2012

Who Stands in Need of Comforting?

By now most everyone has been made aware of the tragedy in Aurora, Coloradowhere apparently a lone individual entered a movie house, opened fire on
innocent folks, killing twelve at last count and injuring many more. The heartache and misery caused by such
reckless conduct is beyond description and yet we somehow attempt to do just
that by immersing ourselves in news accounts of the ordeal or reading first
hand accounts printed on social media places like Facebook or Twitter.

News media outlets score ratings points by showing pictures
of blood soaked body blankets and crowds of grieving survivors sobbing in
disbelief as loved ones or friends are whisked away on stretchers. We may never know why so much evil was unleashed
in the theater the other night. Some
will blame it on easy access to firearms calling for stricter gun control as a
knee jerk reaction while others will blame it on political divisions within the
country.

There’s a movement afoot to destroy our individual God given
right to own and bear arms, our means of defending from those who would deprive
us of property or life. Our founders
were very specific; the most important reason to own and bear arms is to keep a
tyrannical government from being able to take all the other intangible God
given rights provided in the Bill of Rights.

There would be no freedom of speech, no right to assemble
peaceably with grievances against the government without the right to own and
bear arms.

“When
the people fearthe government there is tyranny, when the
government fears the people there is liberty.” (Attributed to Thomas Jefferson; but according
to some historians this line was first offered by John Basil
Barnhill during a debate regarding socialism in 1914. Credit for the uttering the line first is
irrelevant; it is true regardless of the source.)

Rahm Emanual enlightened the public as to how
our current progressive government moves agenda items forward during an
interview with the Wall Street Journal, “Never let a crisis go to
waste…(and if there isn't one, then create it).”

That last part of that thought process bothers me, having
watched Fast & Furious and the implication that our government attempted
to create a crisis for the sole purpose of destroying the 2nd
Amendment. They would have gotten away
with it had it not been for some whistle blower.

Is it possible anyone would create a
situation so horrific as to set in motion a national demand to reduce or
dissolve our 2nd Amendment right to own and bear arms by putting automatic
weapons in the hands of murdering thugs?
I ask only because Eric Holder refused to furnish key evidence to
Congress, information which seems to back up such suspicions.

Is it too big a leap in reason to contemplate
that agents of that same government might find some easily manipulated stooge
capable of murdering a dozen people all in the name of creating a
“crisis”? There have already been
demands to get rid of the guns, those evil guns, by powerful leaders of
government within hours of this event.

It’s too terrible to consider; but Rahm
Emanual did say, “Never let a crisis go to waste…(and if
there isn't one, then create it).” Is
there anyone that evil among us?

A couple of weeks ago I was in a preparation meeting prior
to working my Thursday evening shift at the Houston Temple. The meeting started off with a scriptural
thought presented by Brother Croft, a fellow ordinance worker. The only reason for mentioning this was
because Brother Croft was Bishop of the Columbine Ward when they had a similar
tragedy several years ago.

He spoke clearly and with great effort, memories rushing
through his mind as he read the same scripture he’d shared with his
congregation when they were in need of comforting. Those who lost family members or knew them
were many; all looking for something to cling to as they wore their grief
openly.

The passage he wanted to share was 3 Nephi 17:24, when the Savior visited the people
on this continent after his suffering in Gethsemane,
crucifixion, burial, resurrection and ascension into heaven. He took time with the children as he
ministered and comforted them.

“And as they
looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and theysaw the heavens open, and theysawangelsdescending out of heaven as it were in the midst
of fire; and they
came down and encircled those little ones about, and they
were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them.”

Let’s not rush with undue haste to alter the constitutional framework
provided to protect individual liberties; for liberties lost are not
easily restored. May we instead find the
peace and comfort our Savior provides in these dark moments as we are reminded
of His love for each of us.

This article has been cross posted to The Moral Liberal, a publication whose banner reads, “Defending The
Judeo-Christian Ethic, Limited Government, & The American Constitution”.

1 comment:

I think you are on the right track. This thing stinks to high Heaven, and I don't trust our elected "servants" as far as I can throw them.The only way Satan can destroy freedom around the world is to topple this nation. The only way to topple this nation is from within. Our disgusting, self-absorbed culture keeps most of us glued to the TV and ignoring what's happening.

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